hyped garbage

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I'm not exactly all that sure myself just why the really crazy and wild comedic action horror shorts such as this one do it for me, but they certainly do. I just find the hectic in-your-face colourful style to be highly appealing and a ton of fun, the ones that I've seen always seem to have just the right mix of humour, action, and dementedly creative gore gags, and this is no exception. The very idea of it is so hilariously absurd that somehow it just automatically works! I mean it's about bloody Jesus Christ himself screwing up big time when, whilst attempting to perform the 'blessed' miracle of resurrection, instead unleashes a zombie plague, and then later after eventually gaining a little courage after screaming like a woman and fleeing to the hills, it's up to Jesus and his best pal Judas to put a stop to the shambling hordes of rottenness for good in a terrifically well choreographed free-for-all of blood, guts, death and destruction!! I find the whole thing to be entertaining and I was impressed at the variety of practical effect splatter injuries that they came up with during the sequence. People complain at how fake the effects of this short look, but I don't think it would've worked any other way. How can you do something that's about Jesus fighting the undead and not have it be laughably ridiculous? lf you've watched it to the point where Jesus hysterically busts out the fish and starts using them as deadly projectile weapons and you still haven't got that it's not meant to be taken seriously, then it's probably just not for you! And if you're going into this gory little extravaganza expecting to be scared or something then you're gonna be disappointed because this is the type of thing that is intentionally bad, as it progresses the madcap violence only gets funnier. My favourite part is when the skeleton of the fish is used like a makeshift chainsaw! Also it was such a charmingly weird touch how they decided to just throw cowboy zombies into the mix pretty much for the hell of it! Very freaking strange and bizarre, but also a blast and very fun, very fast paced, and also very likely containing the most blood you've ever seen. I recommend this to the hardcore zombie and gruesome carnage lovers looking for a crazy fun time. Excellente!!!

Sometimes it helps if you go in to a film generally and a short film in particular knowing absolutely about it . I noticed Bob's one line summary and decided to stop reading there and then and catch the film in its entirety on the shortoftheweek website . Like nearly every other film I've seen on that website I decided to forgo reading the written comments that always goes along with the film and just watch it ignorant as to what I'd be getting This was a very good idea because all I knew was it was " gory " and had" a good sense of humour " . As it started I realised something else - it was in Spanish and Spanish cinema has a long and noble history of horror and twisted morbid cinema which is both enjoyable and thought provoking . If you're expecting something biblical with this story then think again because this is Monty Python meets the early splatter punk horror of Peter Jackson . Early in to the running time Jesus feels the need to perform yet another miracle but when you're interfering with the very laws of nature itself something might just go wrong and I had to stifle a laugh while thinking I wasn't expecting that as the initial inciting incident took place To be honest after this the short just becomes a long extended action sequence featuring gore , mutilation and death and the narrative doesn't extend in to going beyond any of this but that's not necessarily a criticism and story knows that it's appealing to an audience interested in gross out comedy horror . Special mention should go to the effects and make up team who obviously put a lot of hard work in to giving the audience a good time . If I was a Hollywood producer I'd track this crew down and sign them up for a studio but it's a sad fact of life that nowadays Hollywood studios think that special effects are exclusively CGI and pyrotechnics . As it stands this little known Spanish short quite rightly puts Hollywood to shame

Jesus is giving a sermon when he is approached with the news that Lazarus has died. Packing up his things and taking his trusty friend Judas with him, Jesus returns to the town and displays his newest miracle – bringing the dead back to life. The assembled crowd is filled with awe when they see Lazarus move and then sit up, however this turns to screams as Lazarus starts chewing on the living – sparking a zombie plague that only Jesus can stop (once he gets his courage and stops running away).This is a great little comedy horror which takes the original living dead and applies the conventions of modern zombie cinema back to it. The plot is little more than an excuse for scenes of zombie carnage as they attack and then even more vivid gore as Jesus and Judas fight back. Although the effects are the majority of the film's running time, there are plenty of laughs that are not gore related and there were several moments and references that made me laugh. Outside of this though it is all about the gore so if you like that sort of thing then you will love this because it is endlessly gory in the depiction of crushed heads, ripped guts, severed limbs and one fish being used to kill (rather than feed) 5000 zombies. Personally this is not normally to my taste so I did find myself looking away during some of the more intense sequences, but this is more about me than the film. The make-up and effects work are very impressive – not just "for a short film" but just generally, and the whole thing has a nice Evil Dead sensibility.You need to like gore to really enjoy it, but this is a great little comedy horror with a good sense of humor and a very impressive job done on the gory effects and make-up.

Jesus Christ resurrects Lazarus, who promptly begins to chomp on the multitudes. It is left to the son of God and his faithful disciple, Judas, to fight off the resulting zombie horde with multiplied fishes.PROS: In case the synopsis didn't advertise it, this wildly funny film plays the Biblical story for bloody laughs. The inventive gore, which rapidly escalates throughout the picture, is matched only by Jesus' madcap use of fish as weaponry. The poster advertises the Monty Python connection, but the festival audience I saw it with got the Peter Jackson connection. "Fist" features fountains of the red stuff, but it's so ridiculously over the top that no one will take offense. And who can resist the cowboy zombies? CONS: This isn't the most original idea. "Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter" springs immediately to mind. Despite the recycling, however, "Fist" is the best made and most fun of the bunch.